Answer: The Answer: The correct answer is Mary, Queen of Scots.
The Question: Who did Elizabeth I ask her suspected lover Robert Dudley to marry?
The Question: Who did Elizabeth I ask her suspected lover Robert Dudley to marry ? Herself. Lady Jane Grey. A commoner. Mary Queen of Scots. The Answer: The correct answer is Mary Queen of Scots.
It was in Dudley that the eight-year-old Elizabeth had confided upon the execution of her third stepmother Catherine Howard in 1541 vowing: "I will never marry." He would always remember the conversation and it may have been the reason he decided to marry Amy Robsart nine years later.
Elizabeth banned her favorite from court and never again accepted Lettice in court even nick-naming her the "she-wolf." It was also at this time another secret marriage by Robert was brought to light that of Lady Sheffield. He denied the marriage but Lady Sheffield had a child naming him Robert Dudley in 1573.
Painting by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. In 1578 with no hope of marrying Elizabeth in the future Robert secretly wed her cousin Lettice Knollys. Elizabeth was furious however and never spoke with her cousin again. The marriage did not last long as Robert died of suspected stomach cancer in 1588.
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